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Orq <br />Town of Reading <br />53 Meeting Minutes <br />ar PECt:IV D <br />TOWN CLERK 0 <br />DING, HAS:. <br />Board - Committee - Commission - Council: <br />Metro North Regional Services Offices rfA 71 P 12° 30 <br />Date: 2016 -02 -25 Time: 10:00 AM <br />Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Berger Room <br />Address: 16 Lowell Street Session: <br />Purpose: Bi- Monthly Meeting Version: <br />Attendees: Members - Present: <br />Jean Delos, Julie Mercier, Laurie Stanton, Danielle McKnight, Valerie <br />Gingrich, Liz Rust <br />Members - Not Present: <br />Bob Luongo <br />Others Present: <br />Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Laurie Stanton <br />Topics of Discussion: <br />MNRHSO meeting 2/25/2016 <br />Call to order by lean Delios. <br />Laurie Stanton presented a summary ofthe bi- monthly report. <br />Bob Luongo has taken a new position as planning director with the Town of Weymouth. His last day with <br />Saugus was February 19`". He is still available to Saugus on an on -call basis. Saugus was awarded a <br />$15,000 grant for a Housing Production Plan (HPP), and will hire MAPC to prepare it. Laurie Stanton <br />attended the first meeting with Karina Milchman of MAPC, Bob Luongo, Mike Procopio, a local <br />developer, and Thomas Traverse, a local mortgage broker, and Laura Glynn, Director of the Saugus <br />Housing Authority. Topics discussed included Saugus' housing status, both affordable and market rate, <br />as well as Town barriers — no META, school quality. <br />Wilmington has 5 affordable units for sale, Whispering Pines, with a restriction that 1 person in each <br />household be over 55. There is a large project (Shawsheen River Estates) with no condominium <br />association in the Town; as a result, Wilmington staff and the Housing Coordinator field a wide variety of <br />calls from owners who live there. <br />Reading has added 3 units to the SHI. There was a Development Review Team meeting regarding the <br />40B project known as Reading village. The proposal is for 77 units on 35,000 SF; 20 units will be <br />affordable. There is only 1 parking space per unit, with no visitor parking. No mixed use is planned. Town <br />staff and residents are concerned with the project's density, among other things. <br />Page 1 1 <br />